... and that has what impact on price exactly? Any forked coins are not injected into the supply, so...
Do you just mean confidence is low in the dev team or some such? And has it been checked for hidden premine by anyone?
Well, yeah, perhaps low confidence in the dev team, frustration from lost hashpower, pools and exchanges averse to dealing with it. And all that is not to say it's not worth it. The variable PoS is a nice innovation, and the dev has been damn diligent.
Not sure if it's been audited for any hijinks, but feel free... the source is on github.
Crap happens when mining pools raise the hashrate indiscriminately from 1 GH/s on day 2 to over 30 GH/s. There are bound to be forks with such an unstable network and few clients. At this point though, it's actually pretty good. There are a few forks because a lot of the unknown pools that haven't contacted us for help setting their configs up haven't been syncing to the supernodes properly and have just forked themselves along with some wallets connected to them from the main chain. And it sucks for the miners of those pools.
As for the official pools, they were pretty reliable. Yea, they might have forked once, but at least they figured it out and recovered from it and paid out to their users. At least one hash farm in Asia was forked for at least 8 hours today, probably more, trying to validate hundreds of orphaned blocks against the supernodes. I don't think the miners on that pool would be too happy with 8+ hours of lost hashes.